List, Hats off to them for this fabulous discovery . Also, It does not appear to have a fusion crust? No scale cube either in picture. Does anybody know the weight? Thanks Carl meteoritemax Cheers
---- "Greg Hupé" <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeff replied: > "No." > > Quick and to the point, I like that! :) > Is a name and/or number in the works? > > Thank you, > Greg > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Grossman > Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:40 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Nobel Prizewinning Quasicrystal Fell From > Space > > No. > > On 1/3/2012 2:41 PM, Greg Hupé wrote: > > Very interesting! Does this meteorite have a name or number yet? > > > > Best Regards, > > Greg > > > > ==================== > > Greg Hupé > > The Hupé Collection > > [email protected] > > www.LunarRock.com > > NaturesVault (eBay) > > IMCA 3163 > > ==================== > > Click here for my current eBay auctions: > > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZnaturesvault > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- From: Ron Baalke > > Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 1:56 PM > > To: Meteorite Mailing List > > Subject: [meteorite-list] Nobel Prizewinning Quasicrystal Fell From Space > > > > > > http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21325-nobel-prizewinning-quasicrystal-fell-from-space.html > > > > Nobel prizewinning quasicrystal fell from space > > by David Shiga > > New Scientist > > January 3, 2012 > > > > A Nobel prizewinning crystal has just got alien status. It now seems > > that the only known sample of a naturally occurring quasicrystal fell > > from space, changing our understanding of the conditions needed for > > these curious structures to form. > > > > Quasicrystals are orderly, like conventional crystals, but have a more > > complex form of symmetry. Patterns echoing this symmetry have been used > > in art for centuries, but materials with this kind of order on the atomic > > scale were not discovered until the 1980s. > > > > Their discovery, in a lab-made material composed of metallic elements > > including aluminium and manganese, garnered Daniel Shechtman of > > the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa last year's Nobel > > prize in chemistry. > > > > Now Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University and colleagues have evidence > > that the only known naturally occurring quasicrystal sample, found in a > > rock from the Koryak mountains in eastern Russia, is part of a meteorite. > > > > Nutty conditions > > > > Steinhardt suspected the rock might be a meteorite when a team that he > > led discovered the natural quasicrystal sample > > <http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1170827> > > in 2009. But other researchers, including meteorite expert Glenn > > MacPherson > > of the Smithsonian Institution of Washington DC, were sceptical. > > > > Now Steinhardt and members of the 2009 team have joined forces with > > MacPherson to perform a new analysis of the rock, uncovering evidence > > that has finally convinced MacPherson. > > > > In a paper that the pair and their teams wrote together, the researchers > > say the rock has experienced the extreme pressures and temperatures > > typical of the high-speed collisions that produce meteoroids in the > > asteroid belt. In addition, the relative abundances of different oxygen > > isotopes in the rock matched those of other meteorites rather than the > > isotope levels of rocks from Earth. > > > > It is still not clear exactly how quasicrystals form in nature. > > Laboratory specimens are made by depositing metallic vapour of a > > carefully controlled composition in a vacuum chamber. The new discovery > > that that they can form in space too, where the environment is more > > variable, suggests the crystals can be produced in a wider variety of > > conditions. "Nature managed to do it under conditions we would have > > thought completely nuts," says Steinhardt. > > > > Journal reference: /Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences/, > > DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1111115109 <http://www.pnas.org/> > > > > ______________________________________________ > > HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! > > Visit the Archives at > > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > > Meteorite-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ > > HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! > > Visit the Archives at > > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > > Meteorite-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ > HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ > HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! 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